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TEMPERANCE.
Corn-Whisky.

COrn-Whisky.
Old Farmer Bently strobe through bis field
Right early one clear spring morn,
Deep wrath in his look,
AS his hard fists he shook,
For the crows had been pulling his corn
Had been pulling his sprouting corn.
he pondered and pondered on ways and means
or thwarting his willy foe;
Then suddenly rose,
As one who knows
Just the very best way to 60
The very best way to 60.
Next day as the birds swarmed over his field
The farmer laughed in his glee;
"That grain scattered round
So thick on the ground
Will teach you lesson" said he
"A lesson will teach you," said he.
The crows crammed and gorged themselves,
cawing for joy,
Till "corned" in more senses than one.
And doleful their plight
And crooked their fight
When the farmer came out with his gun
Came out with his well-loaded gun.
The slaughter was great. but the birds that
escaped
Came no more to that old farmers call;
The crow is no Ounce
He gets drunk but once,
Do we know more and get drunk at ALA
Know more and get drunk at all!
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Christian Responsibility.

preached in Westminster Abbey upon
tChristian Responsibility. "'said:
1.-THE aggregate Of those who, on any single
day, waste their means, rob their families,
and destroy themselves in our thousands OF
gin-shops is far vaster than the number Of
those who come to worship God in His house.
Can we wonder if on every side the Stygian
pool of lust and drink plaster its banks with
mud! We send our bishops to be martyred
in Central Africa: but there is work which
every one of US ought to be doing at our very
doors. You have fellowship, every one Of
you, in this solidarity Of evil. You cannot
wipe off from your souls as with wet cloth,
as though it was no concern Of yours, the
stains left by the sins of others. From each
one Of you radiates invisibly an intsrminable
quences, if summed together, are in
calculable But if it be so in evil, If
it be some cherish hatreded Of yours
which shall strike a murderous bow in an
other century, in another hemisphere, it may
be; if some inner vileneSs of yours may be the
ruin of souls yet unborn; if your idle words,
if your unhallowed deeds may develop quite
naturally into consequences at which now you
would shudder, so is it also, thank God! with
any good you do; it may put on white robes
and 20 forth as an angel to bless the world.
Oh! If we could all, every one Of us, be made
to feel how awful is our common responsible
ity for the general evil, how urgent is our in
dividual duty to labor for the common good,
we should see in regenerated world the full.
filment of the olden prophecy; God would
pour out His Spirit upon all flesh; our sons
and daughters should prophesy, our old men
should see visions, and our young men should
dream dreams, and in London and in Eng
land, and in all the world, there should be de-
Gyerance, as the Lord hath said"
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THERE is in Florida a county composed en-
tirely Of islands.
AMERICAN oysters are now sold in London
at shilling rs cents dozen.
IT is estimated that there are 125,0OO old
soldiers in the State Of Kansas.
A NEW Mammoth cave is said to have been
discovered near Eminence, KY.
THE Government still owns 80, 600, 900 acres
OF unsurveyed land in Nevada
THERE have been nine murders committed
by women in the last five months.
= Pennsylvania has SITS nday-schools; {;
Ohio 6, ISL, and New York only 6,5S4.
THE lower Danube, which has hitherto been
without that fish, has been stocked with 5OO,-
600 eels.
THE Corean Government is adopting
western ideas, and has contracted for three
iron steamers.
THE decrease Of the national debt for the
fiscal year ending June is expected to be
about S1OO, ,OOO,0 900.
A YOUNG lady killed by lightning at Blue
Springs, Neb., recently, was sitting on g.
spring lounge with her lover. The lover es-
capped uninjured.
Two colored women fought duel with
razors over sweetheart recently in Columbia,
South Carolina. Both received serious and
perhaps fatal wounds.
The Lee Memorial Association has erected
at Lexington, Va, mausoleum costing $3O, =
600, which contains the remains of Robert +.
E. Lea and two female members Of the fam
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MANY LIVES LOST.
A Steamer on Lake Michigan De-
stroyed by Fire.

A Steamer on Lake Michigan De-
stroyed by Fire.
The steamer Champlain, of the Northern
Michigan line, was burned Thursday night,
off Charlevoix. The Champlain left Chicago
for the north on Tuesday night at 9 o'clock
She was bound for Cheboygan. Most OF the
passengers on the ill-fated propeller got. on
before She arrived at Milwaukee, and most OF
the freight came from Chicago. The boat
left Milwaukee between and 10 o'clock on
Wednesday morning.
Between Norwood and Charlevolx, at the
mouth of the Grand Traverse bay, when the
boat was running ten miles an hour, flames
shot up from beneath the engine, driving the
engineer from mis- post with his clothes on fire.
He ran to the hurricane deck, plunged into
tank and then returned to his work, but was
too late to stop his engine or connect the hose.
The sleeping passengers were arorse1. Wien
life-preservers had been fastened on all, they
gathered on the forward deck. Two hfe-boats
and life-rafts were lowered, but the steamer
was running so fast that they got away. In
ten minutes from the time the boat caught
fire the passengers were all compelled to
lump into the lake. The steward stated that
there were fifty-seven persons on board, in
cluding the crew. About twenty two persons
lost their lives.
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! Christ, have already won the crown. A little
! girl was found in the streets Of Baltimore and
| taken into one Of the reform societies, and
J they said to her: "What is your nameT'
She said: "My name is Maryw "What
~ your other namef' She said: 81 don't
In. wv" So they took her into the reform
socs. 'ty, and as they did not know her last
since %, ,had been picked up out Of the street.
Int abe rev on, and after awhile the Holy
Snirit cam to her heart, and she became
Christian el lid, and she changed her name;
and when an, body asked her what her name
was. she said: ."It used to be Mary Lost; but
now since I t,a',e become Christian, it is
Mary Found"
For this vast 1nnl. .titude, are we willing to
80 forth from this M rning's service and see
What we can do, ensplo- wing all the agencies /
have spoken Of for the re ectifcation of the poi.
soned fountains, We live in a beautiful.
city. The lines have tallen to Us in
pleasant places, and we have a goodly
heritage; and any man who does not like
residence in Brooklyn, must be most un-
comfortable and unreasonable man. But, my
friends, the material prosperity Of city is
not its chief glory. There may be fine houses
and beautiful streets, and that all be the
garniture Of a sepulchre. Some Of the most
prosperous cities Of the world have gone
down, not one stone left upon another. But
city may be in ruins long before tower
has fallen, or a column has crumbled, or a
tomb has been defaced. When in city the
churches Of God are full Of cold formalities
and inanimate religion; when the houses Of
commerce are the abode of fraud and unholy
traffic; when the streets are filed with
crime unarre5ted and sin unenlightened
and helplessness tnpitied-that city is in
rims, though every church were st.
Peters, and every moneyed institution were
Bank Of England, and every library were a
British Museum, and every house had
porch like that Of Rheims, and roof like that
o! Amiens, and tower like that Of Antwerp,
and traceried windows like those of Freiburg.
My brethren, our pulses beat rapidly the
time away, and soon we shall be gone; and
what we have to do for the city in which we
live we must do right speedily, or never do it
al. all In that day when those who have
wrapped themselves in luxuries and despised
the poor, shall come to shame and everlasting
contempt, hope it may be said Of you
and me that we gave bread to the hungry,
and wiped away the tear of the orphan, and
upon the wanderer of the street we opened the
brightness and benediction Of Christian
home; and then, through our instrumental
ity, it shall be known on earth and in heaven,
that Mary lost became Mary found!
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

THEODORE THOMAS will conduct the mex
biennial festival in Cincinnati.
Mr. JAMES BARTON KEY has formed 6
business connection with Mrs. James Brown
Potter and will be her personal representa-
tive in this country next season.
ANTON RUBINsTEIN has collected 50,0O(
rubles toward realizing his plan of founding
national Russian opera at st. Petersburg
to be connected with new conservatory OF
musical instruction
IT is remarkable how firmly the Americans
are fixing themselves on the London stage
There are in London American managers
American actors and actresses, and American
plays, and the cry is, ''Still they come"
JAPANESE native music is now to be
Europeanized. A conservatoire will shortly
be organized at Toxic, on the model of the
Viennese Conservatoire, where Japanese mu-
system of Western musical study.
A LONDON correspondent says that
Amelia Groll, the German-American girl Of
Cleveland, made successful debut as Mar
gue,ite in Faust" She is said to have full
soprano voice Of pleasant quality, an e3'
cellent stage presence and youth and beauty.
JOHN S. CLARKE, the distinguished comedian.
is probably the largest owner of theatrical
property in the world, being the sole proprie-
sor of the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadel,
phia, whichis the Oldest theatre in this county
the Opera House, Broad street, in the same
city, and the Strand, London.
WHEN Edwin Booths company disbanded
for the season several Of the ladies cried and
the men looked mournful. Last season Mr..
Booths company was the most agreeable on
the road, and not a single misunderstanding
occurred during the entire tour. Mr.. Booth
rewarded the stage hands literally.
ADELINA PATTI appeared before London
audience recently in Albert Hall The
programme was Of unusual excellence and
strength. Patti was most enthusiastically
received. She was recalled again and again.
Trebelli was received with equal favor. The
violin performance Of Nettis Carpenter
brought down storm Of applause.
Mr.. Sol. SMITH RUSSELL, the comedian
who has especially distinguished himself in
Yankee character" parts, is to leave the
stage after one more season. He has already
removed from Boston to Minneapolis. where
he is going into trade, and is accompanied by
his father-in-law, Mr. William T. Adams
who is known to bows as sOliyer Optic.n
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NEW HAVEN MONUMENT.

Imposing Ceremonies at the Dedi.
cation OF Soldiers Memorial.
More than 100, 900 strangers, not including
the military, navy, war veterans and in
vited guests were in New Haven, Conn, on
Friday, to witness the exercises of the dedi-
cation of the Soldiers and Sailors Monu-
ment at East Rock Park. 1t was the greatest
holiday New Haven has ever known. Bust
ness was almost entirely suspended. All the
public buildings were profusely decorated
with flags and bunting, and so were thousands
of private dwellings, not only along the line
of march, but in localities far distant from
where any of the imposing ceremonies took
place.
Opening exercises commenced Thursday
night with q reception to Gems Sherman,
Sheridan, Terry, Schofeld, Sickles, and other
soldiers by the local G. A. r. posts. The re-
ception was attended by thousands of people.
During the evening there was brilliant py-
fotechnic display in East Rock Park.
The parade was the finest ever given in
New Haven BY far, and many say it was the
best ever seen in New England More than
ten thousand men were in line, commanded
by BrevetBrigadier General Edwin S.
Greeley, United States Volunteers, Tenth
Connecticut Volunteers.
After a march Of five miles the procession
reached the Rock, where 1T was greeted with
q salute by the artillery. The exercises at the
Rock included an opening address by Presi-
dent Timothy Dwight, Of Yale, who pre-
sided; invocation by the Rev. DR.. Har-
wood, rector Of Trinity Church; an Grafton
by the Rev. Newman Smyth, pastor of Centre
Church; short addresses from General Samuel
3. Merwin. Town Agent Reynolds, and Mayor
York. National airs were sung by the Memo
rial Guard and large chorus
The monument was erected by the town
and city of New Haven in honor of her heroes
Of the Revolutionary war, the Mexican war,
the War Of 1912, and the civil war. The
height of East Rock, where the monument
stands, is 405 feet, and the height Of the monu-
ment ITO feet, making total elevation of 52e
feet above the sea level On the corners
Of the pedestal are bronzed figures of
Prosperity, History, Victory and Patriotism,
nine feet in height, and the shaft is capped
with bronze figure Of the Angel Of Peace,
eleven feet high. Between the statues and
on each face Of the masonry are bas reliefs
commemoratdng the four great American
wars
The monument Is of Hallowen granite, ane
cost $50, 500
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THE SUMMER RESORTS.

ANEW hotel is building at Bar Harbor
Names great resort.
MANY Philadelphians are in the Catskill
this summer.
SARATOGA is attracting great many Bos
ton people this season.
THE season at Long Branch promises to bt
buster one than ever.
CAMPING out is the fashion at the Thousand
Islands Of the st. Lawrence.
THE hotels at the Isle Of Shoals are looking
forward to very busy season.
THE hotels at Nantasket Beach and Swamp
scott, Mass, are all open for the season.
New mineral springs are still being discoV
cred at Saratoga every little WHILE
some Of the Atlantic City hotels cover q
much ground as New York 'block."
MANY visitors from the North are expect
ed at the various summer resorts In the
South.
CREssoy, Pennsylvania, boasts of one o.
the few absolutely pure water springs In e4
istence.
BLACK ROCK, near Bridgeport, Conn, is q
favorite halfway house for yachtsmen on
on their way east.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, Bar Harborites
hope, will spend good part of the summer at
Mount Desert
WATKINS GLEN, New York;, is already
well into what promises to be the most sue
cessful season it has ever had.
CoopERsTowN, N. Y, mourns the loss of
some of its most prominent cottagers, who
have decided to visit Europe this summer In
stead Of Otsego Lake.
CLARENDON SPRINGS. Vermont, is one Of
the Oldest summer resorts in the country. AS
far back as 1776 people used to resort there to
drink the waters.
THIS promises to be great mountain sea-
son, and the White Mountains will be more
than ever q summer recreation ground for
people from all over the country.
The Luray caverns, Virginia, have been
improved sufficiently by plank and cement
walks, stairways, bridges and railings to
make every part Of them easily accessible
without detracting from their natural
grandeur.
THE number Of entirely new houses that
have been erected in Newport since last sea-
son is quite small compared to some former
years, but there have been immense sums OF
money expended on alterations and improve
mentA
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=. The alkaloid solanine, from the fruit OF
the potato plant, is being employed to
relieve acute pain and as narcotic, in
the place of morphine. 1t is said that
its administration in large doses does not
occasion the nausea and vomiting
which occurs frequently from the use of
this latter. The therapeutic dose is
from three-fourths of a grain to four
grains, and even u grains have been
Given without anr unpleasant effects.
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"RaIrWay In tho Gntc. ("

In the midst Of recent religious inter-
est a little girl said to her backslidden
father, 'tPapa is still half way in the
gate. If I was in his place I wouldn't
want to stand half way in the gate, I
should think he'd be cold out there. /
would either come clear in or 60 clear
out, wouldn't youf" .-.s
There was only one gate of entrance
to the Tabernacle, even as there is only
one way of access to the Father. II am
the door," said Christ; "by me if any
man enter in he shall be saved. No man
cometh unto the Father but by me.
The pious Jew could never have pre-
sented his Offering if he had fingered at
tho gats, and would have hindered
others from coming. Before his gift
could be laid upon the altar he must
come through the gate with the living
animal unblemished and perfect in every
part. And so before we can offer unto
the Lord IAN Offering in righteousness"
we must not only come through that
"new and living way" provided, the
blood Of Jesus, bit we must come
bringing our bodies "a living sacrifice
holy and acceptable unto God."
The "half way" professor not only
cannot draw nigh unto God himself, but
is a perpetual stumbling block to those
who would enter the straight and mar
row way" -......
Those only who fully enter here the
gate of spiritual privilege and opportu-
nifty can be sure Of having ct the last an
abundant entrance through the gates
into that city whose builder and maker
is God Messenger.
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The Cost Of Drink.

The national bureau of statistics shows,
says an exchange, that on the $7OO loo
which annually passes into the tills OF the re-
tailers of intoxicating liquors in this country
there is profit of 13SA per cent. II poor
people had to pay such tax S as that sn on bread
tosses off a glass Of whisky and pays five
cents for the drink and seven or eight cents
to the barkeeper for the trouble Of handing
it to him, he generally thinks the barkeeper
an awfully good fellow, and is ready to fall
on his knees and thank him into the bargain
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COL. BOB INGERSoLL'S
OPINION,

OPINION.
I send you some OF
the most wonderful
whisky that ever
drove the skeleton
from the feast or
painted landscapes in
the brain Of man. 1t
is the mingled souls
Of wheat and corn. In
it you will find th !
sunshine and shadow
that chased each
other over billowy
fields, the breath OF
June, the carol of the
lark, the dews of
night, the wealth OF
summer and au-
tumn's rich content,
all golden with im-
prisoned light. Drink
it, and you will hear
the voice Of men and
maidens singing the
Harvest Home, "
mingled with the
laughter Of children:
Drink it, and you will
feel within your
blood the startled
dawns, the dreamy
tawny dusks Of many
perfect days. For
forty years this liquid
joy has been within
the happy slaves Of
oak, longing to touch
the lips Of man.
-St T,
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reautiful Illustrations.

A minister called upon poor woman,
intending to give her help, tor he knew
that she was very poor. With his hall
crown in hand he knocked at the door.
but she did not answer. He concluded
she was not at home, and went his way.
A little after he met her at his church,
and told her he : had remembered her
need. Il called at your house, aud
knocked several times; suppose you
were not at home, for I had no answer"
cat what hour did you call, sir3" ut
was about noon." "Oh, DEAR" she said,
sI heard you, sir, and am so sorry I
did not answer; but I thought it was the
man calling for the rent"
am asking nothing Of you in the
name of God Or man. I make no re-
ouirement at your hands. ! come in
Gods name to bring you free gift,
which shall be to your present and eter-
nal ioy to receive. The Lord Jesus
knocks with a hand that was nailed to
the tree for such as you are. !.
He that is black sinner, he is the kind
of man Jesus Christ came to make
white.
A great artist had painted part of the
city in which he lived and wanted for
historic purposes to include in the pic
ture some of the characters we'll known
in the town. .".
A crossing sweeper, uukempt, ragged,
filthy, was known to everybody, and
there was q suitable place for him in the
picture. The artist said to him. II will
pay YOU we'll if you will come down to
nv studio and let me take your Like
ness"
He came round, but he was sent about
his business; for he had washed his
face. and combed his hair. and donned
a respectable suit of clothes. He was
needed as beggar, and was not invited
in any other capacity. Even so. the
GOSPEL will receive you into its halls, II
YOU come as a sinner, but not else.
The weakness of your faith will not de-
stroy YOU. A trembling hand may re-
ceive royal gift. Great messages can
be sent along slender wires. Think
more of Him to whom you look than OF
the look itself. = From CAL OF Grace"
by G. b. Spurgeon.
T. will never cease to be one of the
marvels of Christianity that her anti
dotes are the sane in every CLINE, every
ace, every bosom. Just as the chemist
can infallbly pronounce on the action OF
the acids he throws into his cruclble,
their corrosive and solvent, it may be.
transforming power so in the gospel
crucible, cast the human heart in its
every form and type, that OF the de-
graded African, the effeminate Hind 90
the ferocious New Zeaiander. the repro
bate European, the Gospel Of Christ,
by a heavenly alchemy, melts that heart,
d'ssolves the pride of reason, the power
NJ superstition, the curse and misery OF
vice. 1t is the only universal balsam,
''the Healer of the nations!'-- R. j.
Nacduff.
Labor il sweeter. for Thou hast toiled.
And care is light, for Thou hast cared;
Let not our works with self be soiled,
Nor in unsimple ways ensnarad-
TT - -
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Two Opinions OF whisky.
PROH1BITIOSIST'S
OPINION.

- ASOAA ASA - ->A"ASA - ~
OPINION.
I send you some Of
the most wonderful
whisky that ever
filed with snakes the
boots of men, or
painted towns in q
cardinal red. 1t has
the mingled souls Of
corn and strychnina
In it you will find the
lnoonshine that made
the Marshal chase the
shadows over West
ern hills, the breath
of flame, the whistle
of police, the hood
lum wagon and thirty
days in prison for
thinking you could
fight. Drink it, and
you will hear the
voice Of comrade,
singing "Whsn John
ny Comes Marching
Home" mingled with
the laughter Of the
boys. Drink it, and
you will feel within
your head a sense Of
swelling - the boozy
bliss Of many high old
SpreeS. For Sixty Gays
this liquid fire has
been within the meek
and mild-eyed demi-
john, longing to
scorch the throat Of
man.
mis- GEobe-Denlocrnt
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The main factor in the production of
consumption is believed by Prof. Hirsch
to be overcrowding and bad hygiene.
Damp when conjoined with frequent os-
citations of temperature predisposes to
the disease but humidity of the air is
less important than dampness of soil.
Occupation is extremely important, but
mainly indirectly, as tending to good or
bad hygienic conditions.
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Culinary Temperance.

The kitchen is often the stronghold Of the
drink habit in this country, from the fact that
q great many of our inherited and imported
receipts give f1avorings Of wine or brandy, to
say nothing of rum, gin, or whisky. These
are often carelessly copied, even by our re-
lgious papers, and as carelessly practiced by
religious people If they have their atten-
tion called to the matter, they may say that
the heat drives away the alcohol, and moth
think of the absurdity Of supposing we could
taste the stuff if it was not there. But this
taste itself is the very thing to be feared =
whether it creates in children a familiarity
with the liquors used, and thus makes them
in after wears prey to the drink habit; or
whether it re-awakens in the reformed man
the appetite which has done him so much
mischief, and which has been with so much
difficulty subdued.-JuliG Colmdn.